Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 80 57
Rank change year-on-year -36 -23 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,307 1,547 3,546
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.75% 3.62% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.87% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 869 1,033 2,782
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% +10.37% -13.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 1,193 £77,500 +3.51% 485
London +7 660 £87,500 - 219
Work from Home -26 575 £72,500 +0.71% 322
UK excluding London -103 541 £67,500 -1.50% 326
North of England -42 245 £67,500 -3.57% 115
North West -36 117 £66,250 -1.85% 57
South East -106 101 £75,000 +11.11% 92
Yorkshire -36 98 £70,000 -2.77% 28
South West -58 62 £65,000 -5.14% 28
Midlands -53 59 £67,500 +3.85% 43
East of England -24 38 £65,000 +13.04% 17
West Midlands -20 33 £67,500 -3.57% 25
North East -5 30 £62,500 +19.05% 31
Scotland -82 28 £62,500 -16.67% 20
East Midlands -55 25 £67,500 +3.85% 18
Wales -20 7 £55,200 +17.02% 15
Northern Ireland -34 5 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.14%) Apache Spark
2 21 (1.61%) Apache
3 20 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 17 (1.30%) Confluence
6 14 (1.07%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.99%) JBoss
8 11 (0.84%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.77%) CMS
9 10 (0.77%) IIS
10 6 (0.46%) Appian
11 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.31%) Camunda
12 4 (0.31%) nginx
13 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.23%) Liferay
13 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
15 1 (0.077%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.84%) Maya
2 11 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.61%) Endur
3 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.077%) Actimize
7 1 (0.077%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.077%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.077%) Quorum
7 1 (0.077%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.077%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 719 (55.01%) AWS
2 587 (44.91%) Azure
3 291 (22.26%) GCP
4 231 (17.67%) Serverless
5 169 (12.93%) SaaS
6 117 (8.95%) GitHub
7 107 (8.19%) Amazon S3
8 101 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
9 98 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
11 69 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 65 (4.97%) Amazon SQS
13 61 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
14 49 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 47 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (3.44%) OpenShift
18 42 (3.21%) PaaS
19 38 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
20 32 (2.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.21%) Broadband
2 11 (0.84%) HTTP
3 8 (0.61%) AMQP
4 7 (0.54%) Internet
5 6 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.46%) Firewall
5 6 (0.46%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.31%) DHCP
7 4 (0.31%) DNS
7 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.31%) SNMP
7 4 (0.31%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Modbus
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
8 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.077%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (14.15%) NoSQL
2 173 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
3 127 (9.72%) MongoDB
4 120 (9.18%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.66%) MySQL
6 64 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 63 (4.82%) DynamoDB
8 48 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.98%) Redis
10 30 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (2.14%) Big Data
11 28 (2.14%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.76%) RDBMS
13 16 (1.22%) Power BI
14 13 (0.99%) DB2
14 13 (0.99%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.84%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 169 (12.93%) Git
2 120 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 82 (6.27%) GitLab
4 53 (4.06%) TeamCity
5 43 (3.29%) JIRA
6 39 (2.98%) Cucumber
6 39 (2.98%) JUnit
7 32 (2.45%) Selenium
8 30 (2.30%) Cypress.io
9 28 (2.14%) CircleCI
10 22 (1.68%) Mockito
11 20 (1.53%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.45%) Maven
13 13 (0.99%) JMeter
14 11 (0.84%) Vite
15 10 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
15 10 (0.77%) Postman
16 9 (0.69%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.54%) git-flow
17 7 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 392 (29.99%) Finance
2 380 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 164 (12.55%) Banking
4 108 (8.26%) Law
5 102 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.58%) Public Sector
7 74 (5.66%) Retail
8 67 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (4.44%) Financial Institution
10 52 (3.98%) Telecoms
11 43 (3.29%) Back Office
12 25 (1.91%) Games
13 24 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.68%) Billing
14 22 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.30%) Advertising
15 17 (1.30%) Legal
16 14 (1.07%) Marketing
17 12 (0.92%) Front Office
18 11 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 445 (34.05%) Developer
2 343 (26.24%) Senior
3 253 (19.36%) Software Engineer
4 212 (16.22%) Architect
5 163 (12.47%) Lead
6 121 (9.26%) Senior Developer
7 116 (8.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 110 (8.42%) Java Developer
9 101 (7.73%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 82 (6.27%) Java Engineer
12 75 (5.74%) .NET Developer
13 54 (4.13%) Software Developer
14 49 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.67%) Java Software Engineer
16 45 (3.44%) Lead Developer
17 40 (3.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 40 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
18 39 (2.98%) Senior Java Developer
19 36 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (22.95%) .NET
2 293 (22.42%) React
3 261 (19.97%) RESTful
4 224 (17.14%) Spring
5 207 (15.84%) REST
6 196 (15.00%) Spring Boot
7 189 (14.46%) Node.js
8 177 (13.54%) Kafka
9 111 (8.49%) AngularJS
10 102 (7.80%) .NET Core
11 82 (6.27%) gRPC
12 72 (5.51%) HTML
13 69 (5.28%) .NET Framework
14 61 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
15 60 (4.59%) CSS
16 59 (4.51%) ASP.NET
17 56 (4.28%) Middleware
18 53 (4.06%) Django
19 49 (3.75%) Hibernate
20 45 (3.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 381 (29.15%) Cloud Native
2 220 (16.83%) Distributed Systems
3 111 (8.49%) Product Ownership
4 109 (8.34%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.91%) Data Structures
8 36 (2.75%) Over-the-Top Content
8 36 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 33 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.45%) Algorithms
11 26 (1.99%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.99%) Blockchain
11 26 (1.99%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (1.53%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.30%) IoT
14 17 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.15%) Public Cloud
16 13 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 58 (4.44%) Linux
2 23 (1.76%) Windows
3 17 (1.30%) Android
4 8 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.46%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.077%) Fedora
8 1 (0.077%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (48.66%) CI/CD
2 550 (42.08%) Agile
3 512 (39.17%) DevOps
4 497 (38.03%) Software Engineering
5 375 (28.69%) Containerisation
6 309 (23.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 285 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
8 273 (20.89%) Mentoring
9 260 (19.89%) Event-Driven
10 242 (18.52%) AI
11 241 (18.44%) Test Automation
12 239 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 206 (15.76%) Computer Science
14 180 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 160 (12.24%) Scrum
16 157 (12.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 157 (12.01%) Technical Leadership
17 150 (11.48%) Clean Code
18 147 (11.25%) TDD
19 145 (11.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 440 (33.66%) Java
2 347 (26.55%) Python
3 275 (21.04%) SQL
4 258 (19.74%) JavaScript
5 255 (19.51%) C#
6 213 (16.30%) TypeScript
7 112 (8.57%) Go
8 42 (3.21%) Scala
9 40 (3.06%) PHP
10 33 (2.52%) Bash
11 31 (2.37%) C++
12 28 (2.14%) C
13 26 (1.99%) Ruby
14 22 (1.68%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.61%) PL/SQL
16 18 (1.38%) Shell Script
17 16 (1.22%) Rust
18 15 (1.15%) PowerShell
19 7 (0.54%) Bicep
20 6 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 210 (16.07%) Degree
2 138 (10.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.19%) Security Cleared
4 73 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 63 (4.82%) AWS Certification
6 49 (3.75%) Master's Degree
7 42 (3.21%) Azure Certification
8 36 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.30%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.07%) CISSP
13 13 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.77%) CISM
15 9 (0.69%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.69%) PMP
16 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.46%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.74%) QA
2 29 (2.22%) GDPR
3 28 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 26 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.92%) NIST
6 12 (0.92%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.77%) NCSC
8 7 (0.54%) EMIR
9 6 (0.46%) GRC
10 5 (0.38%) IFRS
10 5 (0.38%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) SEPA
11 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 408 (31.22%) Docker
2 14 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 403 (30.83%) Kubernetes
2 223 (17.06%) Terraform
3 86 (6.58%) Grafana
4 66 (5.05%) Ansible
5 36 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.84%) Kibana
7 14 (1.07%) Argo
8 10 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.69%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.46%) Puppet
11 4 (0.31%) Cilium
11 4 (0.31%) Istio
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.077%) MIIS
14 1 (0.077%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 138 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.06%) Google
3 50 (3.83%) Oracle
4 36 (2.75%) Typelevel
5 18 (1.38%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.38%) SAP
6 17 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.22%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.15%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
9 14 (1.07%) Software AG
9 14 (1.07%) Splunk
10 11 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 11 (0.84%) BiZZdesign
10 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.84%) Palo Alto
11 10 (0.77%) Cisco
11 10 (0.77%) Databricks
11 10 (0.77%) IBM
12 9 (0.69%) Guidewire